Why should we expect a life free of all obstacles, replete with wealth, luxury and all so-called good things of life, when by our activities we have placed and maintained these obstacles in Creation? How can we believe in justice if these were simply removed from our path without our participation and without our being permitted to recognize the worth of these activities by an experiencing of the obstacles they constitute in Creation? Who or what do we expect to clear these iniquities for us – some Angel that had no part in the sins, our declarations of faith, or the innocent blood of the Son of God unjustly shed on the cross?
The same Son of God had demanded spiritual awakening or rebirth as a necessary condition for salvation; and as a great help for the end time for those who strive in this way, had promised the Spirit of Truth who will bring enlightenment in the word just before ushering in the judgement.
As the work ‘In the Light of Truth’ admonishes – Awake! Look around you! Listen to your spirit’s inner voice! This alone can open the way. It demands that we must carry within us the
firm volition for what is good and strive to give purity to our thoughts. We must strive in thought, words and deeds to live in the Will of God. In this way only – first a personal decision followed by persevering and consistent activity - can you receive from the Holy Spirit the power and the strength for upward striving. You must do it yourself and not wait perhaps to be “possessed” by the Holy Spirit. No great spiritual strain or great intellectual acuity is required but a humble seeking after the Will of God, in conscious and alert experiencing of the joy and bliss of His Creation.
Presumption must bow to humility. As soon as we become childlike, thereby shedding our intellectual conceit, we begin to be true human beings in whom the spirit becomes increasingly mobile and thus ultimately awake.
This is the path forward for all of us as stipulated by the love of God – irrespective of race, color or religion.
OUR SEARCH FOR TRUTH
“He who makes no effort to grasp the word of the Lord aright burdens himself with guilt.” Abd-ru-shin1
The knowledge of the Truth is basic to our survival as spiritual beings and is an intrinsic driving need, which every human spirit wishes to satisfy. This search for its origin, the meaning of life, and for life itself is as fundamental to the spirit as air and water are to the physical body. Without the Truth, we cannot have life for the Truth resides in and is life. They are both inseparably one in the origin of all things, the Creator.
As an essential aid towards our development and maturity during our wanderings in the planes of matter, we have been endowed with the insatiable urge for the recognition of the Creator.1 This is the persistent need that perpetually urges us to movement. Ultimately this restless drive would have ensured our development in the Will of the Creator and our maturity to full spiritual value. The recognition of the absolute Truth in God sets free the pure flame of spirituality.1 Unfortunately for many of us, it is no longer obvious where this perpetual urge for inner movement springs from.
Because of the inability to recognize the real nature of our need, what it is that we really aspire to achieve, the search for the Truth was channeled into various by-paths. The pervasive drive for the so-called vices for example, the insatiable ambitions of the highly intellectual man, the primitive brutality of the callous killer, the apparently harmless preoccupation with material wealth and glory and many other such propensities are all rooted in this wrongly channeled urge to find fulfilment as human spirits. However, fulfilment as willed by the Creator, the source of Light and Life, is our recognition and conscious adjustment to His Will. Therein lies our goal and so the restlessness that drives us to seek spiritual fulfilment, is actually a great blessing without which we would be lost like rudderless ships on the great ocean of Creation. This urge can never be satisfied outside the Will of God.
The need within the spirit for the Truth cannot be satisfied with anything less than the Truth, as indeed no substitute exists. We cannot have any peace or real joy without adjusting our lives to the Laws of the Almighty Creator, within which and through which the Truth is manifest and becomes accessible to us.1 Man thus finds himself indulging in one pursuit after another without ever finding any lasting satisfaction. All we succeed in doing by following these wrong channels is to distort and entangle the path to the Truth, which in its simple form we are then no longer able to recognize. Is it any surprise that people now deny the Creator?
The distortions concerning the Truth arise from intellectual conceit and spiritual indolence. It may be assumed that in the most favorable circumstances a lack of knowledge is responsible but this also to a large extent is related to indolence. Indolence, which is the dominant trait and the major stumbling block in the spiritual development of humanity today, is itself a direct consequence of over-cultivation of the intellect. The ultimate effect of this fault of relying almost exclusively on the intellect rather than on spiritual intuitive movement can best be described as the human spirit being asleep, rolled up within itself in indolent complacency, cushioned by intellectual and material preoccupation from the actual experiencing of personal individual life. This is doubly tragic when we recognize that it is actually the spirit that is alive and that the energy and warmth consumed by the intellect emanates from the spirit.
The indolent human spirit, as already indicated, refuses to accept responsibility for its own existence. The human being whose spirit is so bound can no longer even identify self as being of spiritual essence and prides him/herself only on his/her intellectual achievements. Such individuals have subjugated their spirit, their primary essence to their intellect, the tool they were supposed to use to influence matter. The prompting of the spirit, its intuitive movement can then frequently no longer be perceived and the individual now has to depend on his/her senses, feelings and imagination. It is no wonder that such human beings lack a vital goal and no longer see beyond physical death. Unless reawakening occurs to set the spirit free, it can no longer find the path to the Truth. The individual however continues in the delusion that he or she is alive and in many instances even that he or she is ‘enjoying life.’
In this way, many stumble through life with their spiritual sight blindfolded, completely subject to material urges. Yet when as a consequence of this volition they experience difficulties, they prefer in false humility and sometimes even in defiant arrogance, to accuse an indifferent destiny or fate for their circumstance. These difficulties however are purely a reflection of inner disharmony, which expresses itself in their external circumstances.
One stubborn illusion is that wealth, position and power represent fulfilment and happiness. This is indeed far from the truth, as those who have achieved these positions know very well. The glitter remains attractive only to those who still hope to achieve these, but those who have already achieved wealth or power know of its hollowness and its inability to satisfy the urge that burns within for inner fulfilment. This of course does not prevent them from striving ever harder for more material success because they also cannot consciously understand the source of their dissatisfaction. Interestingly most of those who are satisfied with their lives are to be found in the working middle classes and the borderline poor, and these are the ones that have any inner peace.
We need to recognize that we weave our own fate and that we literally make the bed on which we lie with every decision we take. The Laws of the Almighty Creator, in absolute Justice and Love only ensure the development, the ripening and the harvesting of our works.1 People complain of their circumstances and about the deterioration in human values but it is the fruits of our individual and collective works that surround us today. We are the architects of our collective and individual circumstances. Distrust, envy, hatred, war and disease, pestilence and even so-called natural disasters are all directly or indirectly linked to this individual failure.
Indeed, no matter from which angle we look at the human problems today, be it economical, religious, political etc., the fundamental problem remains the same, that is, the lack of balance in spiritual and material-intellectual development in the individual human being. When translated into the activities of the entire human race, the resultant confusion and suffering was bound to be tremendous. Indeed, what we consider to be difficulties